Last night I was the guest “professor” for a fun, weekly online chat called #bikeschool on Twitter. The format is simple: the professor asks questions, the audience answers. Participants hashtag evertyhing with #bikeschool so we can track the discussion.
Happy Friday and, for Americans, happy Pi Day. 30 Days of Biking is an “online community of joyful cyclists” who pledge to bike a straight 30 days in the month of April, however far you want, no matter the weather. You (optionally) share your ride to Twitter, Instagram or Vine with #30daysofbiking. That’s all there […]
I and others have commented on the obligatory news photos and videos of somebody on a bike during extreme weather events such as hurricanes and blizzards. We even had a unicycle photobomb a story about a Utah ice storm this winter. And now, we have a news photo of a man riding his unicycle through… […]
From the Austin American Statesman on the allegedly drunk driver who drove at high speed through a crowd of people attending a South by Southwest event in downtown Austin, Texas: “The Austin Police department is investigating this matter as allegedly involving drunk driving. If this is true, this fact angers me. Drunk driving is never […]
This set of dispatches came in via the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday morning for a traffic collision on Old San Jose Road in Santa Cruz County, California.
A couple of items of note from Santa Cruz, California. The Santa Cruz Police Blog asks for the public’s help in identifying a suspect who allegedly stole a bicycle and then attempted a purse snatching on Soquel Avenue. The missing bicycle is a “grey Schwinn street bicycle with thin tires & wheels. The bike has […]